Great, does that mean I can throw the Ten Commandments out the window too? 1) Jesus had the authority to do so. I have added emphasis where it comes applicable to the answer. We do not live it by works, or by any law. To return to your question, then. This time, the freedom in question is not a freedom from forces that oppress from without, but rather from within, the enslavement of sin that distorts our relationships with ourselves, our neighbor, and God. But it is not a matter of choosing one over the other, since salvation itself cannot be understood apart from God’s refusal to be deterred by the recalcitrance of the human heart. Two PhD programs simultaneously in different countries. How come it's actually Black with the advantage here? The defining moment in the New Testament, Jesus’ passage from death to life, is also an exodus from slavery to freedom. This exodus from slavery to freedom is the defining moment in the life of God’s people in the Old Testament. 29If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. "Not my will but thine be done". The Old Testament shows the wrath of God against sin (with glimpses of His grace); the New Testament shows the grace of God toward sinners (with glimpses of His wrath). 2) Jesus only did and said what he saw the Father doing, in perfect obedience. For a more thorough explanation of these views, who supports them and on what basis, see my answer on: We are free from the law. The new completely supersedes the old. But anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of hell. Saying that there are no Gospel laws that followers of Christ must obey contradicts a huge amount of stuff that Christ personally said, including the bulk of the Sermon on the Mount and the later admonition, "if you love me, keep my commandments.". 17“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. May it be “a lamp for your feet and a light for your path.” (See Psalm 119:105.). Hope I blessed you! These two obviously conflict each other. 40And if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings. Jesus is the substance of the shadows, the anti type of the types, and the very epitome of all the moral enunciation of the law. 26I tell you the truth, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny.d. 6: 2, Col. 2: 14, see addendum). Galatians 2 says "All they asked was that we should continue to remember the poor, the very thing I had been eager to do all along." The Gospel is not a "higher law" because it is not a law. 18I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. For example, in Mark 10 we find: And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?" I suppose one way of approaching an answer to it is to note the use of the Bible in the Church’s liturgy. Thanks for your question. And in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter. If a person is dressed up as non-human, and is killed by someone who sincerely believes the victim was not human, who is responsible? There is no OT law that NT Christians are bound to obey. 47And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? 33“Again, you have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘Do not break your oath, but keep the oaths you have made to the Lord.’ 34But I tell you, Do not swear at all: either by heaven, for it is God’s throne; 35or by the earth, for it is his footstool; or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the Great King. You know that not only is salvation by grace, but we live the Christian life by grace. There is no passage in the OT or NT that ever says Gentile Christians need to follow the law. Do far-right parties get a disproportionate amount of media coverage, and why? If HE was the WORD before He came down then He had to be that same WORD when He arrived, which He refers to when He said "Untill Heaven and earth disappear Not a jot or line will disappear from the Torah" Which at the time was the only written word of God which would naturally have JOTs and LINEs in it.